Famous quotes containing the words queen, grammar and/or school:
“Queen Jane was in labor
Six weeks and some more;
The women grew wearied,
And the midwife gave oer.”
—Unknown. The Death of Queen Jane (l. 14)
“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.”
—Robert Bresson (b. 1907)
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